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Letters Patent No. 65,344, dated June 4, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRUNKS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:I

'Be it known that I, E. I. CARTER, of Arcade, in the county of Wyoming, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Hinged Metallic Trunk-Bandg and I de hereby declare that the i'ollowing is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification,- in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the front and end.

Figure 2 is a detached view of the hinge joint of the bands.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

The nature of this invention consists in hinging the encircling metallic bands or straps of trunks on the back side, and connecting them in front by suitable straps.

In forming this band, I take an ordinary square link, a, like a common buckle with the tongue taken out. The link should be wide enough to receive the hoop iron or brass band b, and large enough the other way to receive two thicknesses of the band. Then cnt the band about one and a halt` inch longer than is necessary to reach to'the joint of the trunk. Then pass the end through the link a, and bend it down tight together. Then fasten it to the back ofthe trunk by nails or screws driven through both thicknesses of the band. `The middle bands may be made in the saine way if desired. The top part of the band is then passed through the same link, and bent down and nailed or otherwise fastened, as before, and passed over to the front side and down to the joint, where it is furnished with another link. The bottoni hand b is bent around and under the bottom and up the front side, terminating in a link, a, in the saine manner as the top band in front. There should be space enough between thelinks d and a to receive a short leather strap and buckle, with which to connect the said links. Instead ofthe square link on the bottom band in front, the band may be perforated to receive the tongue of the buckle, which might be applied to the hand directly, and thereby answer for that link and the buckle. The bands may pass entirely across the bottom and up to the joint in front, or they may be made short and fastened under the edge of the trunk. The hinges may be made on the bands in various ways. For instance, a portion of cach may be cut away and the ends put together with a wire to turn in the usual manner, or there may be two bands used on the lower part oi' the trunk and one on the upper, and the wire put through the three; but the plan first described is simple, and makes a strong and substantial binding, much stronger and cheaper than the long leather straps in common use for the saine purpose. There may be a short iron strap'riveted transversely across the bands at the joints or next the links, for the purpose of securing the bands'to the trunk at those points more rmly than they otherwise would be.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s

l. As an improvement in the construction of trunks and valises, forming the hinges by connecting the ends of the encircling bands ofthe cover to the encircling bands of the body, substantially i'n the manner set forth..

2. Providing the front ends ofthe encircling nietallic bands of trunks and valises with links for the reception of connecting straps, as and for the purposes shown and described.

E. P. CARTER.

Witnesses WM. S. Lonennonouen, L. M. NEWTON. 

